I am partial to Olivio. It is a vegetable spread product. I dont know how closeley related it is to margarine.

But i like to use cold butter and it feels so good like a massage all over, but sometimes the butter gets stuck under my nails...and i hate that. Then i have to start typing so my fingers can get all like warm and then the butter starts to melt.

I have another ritual that is about to work. I take virgin olive oil and i rub it all over my feet, and it feels so good like when my nails are like long, but not like too long...and its best to use Italian oil instead of like California oil.

Then i strip down to just to my boxers and run to the store with the rude and sneaky patel...even though patel is kinda like racist or prejudiced. Some are Indian, some or afghan, some are pakestani. I could see the chinese but they are only at 7-11 and its kind of like really far to run there barefoot, just wearing boxers!!

But you have to run to the store in a figure 8, the symbol for infinite ∞

But as you run you have to like talk to your feet and the earth and god...and stuff (try not to step on poop or glass while running barefoot! safety first)

Then when you get to the store you have to pray to the god that the store worships, so there are too many to remember...sometimes i pray to ganesh, because he is a pink elephant.

Then you rub your greasy feet and rub your hands on the counter and on the terminal, intoning god give me abundance.... and then you go home put your ticket on the bulletin board and take a shower.

Hey whats up people. was just wonderin what everyones good luck charms were or if that have any rituals when it comes to your lotto tickets and such

Personally I stick my tickets in my pocket size bible and place my gold chain with a cross on top of it before i go to sleep.

What do you guys do?

"TO HAVE A LOTTERY TICKET IS TO HAVE A TALISMAN OF POSSIBLE WEALTH."

"To have a lottery ticket is to have a talisman of possible wealth that, when held and contemplated, brings immediately to mind the fantasy of wealth and makes it feel much more visceral. There is no equivalent talisman for the possibility of a wealthy aunt, and, hence, the fantasy is far weaker."

"The "fantasy aid" argument for purchasing a lottery ticket works in light of this very real gain in utiles by comparison to the far more passive fantasizing about one's wealthy aunt. It isn't hard to think of other examples of this "talisman effect" in fantasy and memory: physical books are relatively more expensive than ebooks (modulo Amazon's future-oriented pricing); letters from lovers call to mind more poignant memories than do emails or remembrances; people save chips that are otherwise useless from casinos; etc. It would seem to me that smart, rational people are no less susceptible to the very real utile-increasing effects of talismans. This is a reason to play the lottery: you hold the possibility of riches in your very hand. No hypothetical relatives offer the same pleasure."

When I buy my tix I fold it in half and put it in my left pocket. Then when I get home take it out and out it in the exact same place on the nightstand...top left corner. I like to wait until after I get home the following day before I check my numbers.